Program Overview

Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches, Undergraduate Certificate

The Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches (CIH) certificate program is designed to provide an educational foundation in the broad use of complementary and integrative practices. This program focuses on health and wellness, mind and body, and natural products, which are key areas of focus within this area of study.

Overview

Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches are important components of the American health care system, supporting a focus on health and wellness. The CIH approaches advocate for care that is patient-centered, healing-oriented, emphasize the therapeutic relationship, and use therapeutic approaches originating from conventional and alternative medicine. Health care professionals, future health care professionals, wellness and fitness-oriented professionals, students, and interested individuals can benefit from competency in understanding and critically evaluating the various practices considered as complementary and alternative or integrative.

Requirements

To earn the academic certificate, a minimum GPA of 2.5 is required in the 15 credits.

• Required courses:
  • BMS 260: Introduction to Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches (3 credits)
  • KIN 365: Health Aspects of Mind and Body Practices (3 credits)
  • KIN 368: Intervention Strategies in Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches (3 credits)
  • KIN 400: Ethics and Values in the Health and Fitness Professions (3 credits)
• Electives: Select 3 credits from the following options

  General Focus

  • BMS 245: Client Diversity in Health Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (3 credits)
  • COMMUN 381: Health Communication (3 credits)
  • PHILOS 244: Ethical Issues in Health Care (3 credits)
  • PSYCH 254: Physiological Psychology (3 credits)
  • SOCIOL 331: Sociology of Health Care (3 credits)

  Health and Wellness Focus

  • BMS 232: Introduction to Nutrition (3 credits)
  • NUTR 241: Why We Eat What We Eat: An Ecological Approach (3 credits)
  • KIN 556: Multilevel Approaches to Changing Physical Activity and Eating Behaviors (3 credits)
  • NUTR 235: Introduction to Nutrition for the Health Professions (3 credits)
  • NUTR 245: Life Cycle Nutrition (3 credits)
  • NUTR 355: Modifying Nutrition and Eating Behavior (3 credits)

  Active Learning (Experience) Focus

  • SPT&REC 296: Exercise and Fitness Activities: (Energy Vinyasa Yoga) (1 credit)
  • SPT&REC 298: Meditation, Relaxation, and Wellness: (Mind Body Awareness) (2 credits)
  • SPT&REC 298: Meditation, Relaxation, and Wellness: (Meditation with a Touch of Yoga) (2 credits)
  • SPT&REC 298: Meditation, Relaxation, and Wellness: (Running with the Mind of Meditation) (2 credits)
  • SPT&REC 298: Meditation, Relaxation, and Wellness: (The Art of Healing: Introduction to Self-Care Practices) (1 credit)
  • SPT&REC 298: Meditation, Relaxation, and Wellness: (Wellness: Conscious Living) (2 credits)

Kinesiology Department Programs

The Department of Kinesiology offers various programs, including:

• Applied Gerontology, Graduate Certificate
• Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches, Undergraduate Certificate
• Healthy Aging, Undergraduate Certificate
• Kinesiology, BS
• Kinesiology, Minor
• Kinesiology, MS
• Kinesiology, PhD
• Nutritional Sciences, BS
• Nutritional Sciences, Minor

University Accreditation

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, a regional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.